Corroboree Park and Leaning Tree Lagoon

Just an hour's drive from Darwin, but firmly in the Bush at Marrakai, Corroboree Park has a laidback campground perfect to spend a week on city sorties alternating with feet up in the Bush. We were invited to a neighbour's 61st birthday party. His t-shirt let us know we were welcome.

A large flock of corellas spent their happy hour in the park together with red-tailed black cockatoos, a pair of channel-billed cuckoos, and dozens of wallabies. The camp owners also had an albino buffalo and a grey one mudbathing leisurely in an enclosure.

To replenish food stocks, we made the short trip to Humpty Doo where the hotel served a scintillating buffalo, croc and barra trio of mini burgers.

We also drove to nearby Leaning Tree Lagoon to watch and photograph wildlife at dawn and dusk.

Carpets of white lilies opened during the day, closed at night, reedbeds and grassy edges hosted wild ducks, egrets, dabchicks, ibises, snakebirds, corellas, red-tailed black cockatoos, and kites. A delightful lagoonscape all to ourselves.

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Marrakai, Corroboree Park, Northern Territory, NT, Leaning Tree Lagoon